
Malawi Floods
Our research found images showing localised climate impacts were a powerful way of connecting with people.
Alamy
Rights Managed
WHAT IT SHOWS: In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows A Medicin Sans Frontieres clinic in Makhanga with anti malarial drugs to treat local people, many of whom now have malaria, as a result of the drying up flood waters providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
Photo by
Ashley Cooper
Principles:
Show 'real people', not staged photo-ops
Tell new stories
Show local (but serious) climate impacts